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I GARMENT TAG OB. TIGKET. No. 257,017. Patented Apr. 25,1882;

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UNITED STATES NT O IC JOHN KELLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT TAG OR TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,017, dated April25, 1882.

Application filed January 11, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KELLER, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented anImproved Garment Tag or Ticket, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being badto the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a ticket for use by tailors in marking completedgarments; and it consists in such a ticket provided with theindentations or openings on its edges, as hereinafter described, and forthe purpose hereinafter specified.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a coil of my improved tickets andembodying my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 show modifications of the forms ofmy improved ticket.

In fabricating my improved ticket I take preferably a strip or ribbon ofpaper or cardboard of a width substantially equal to one of the planedimensions of the ticket and of any desired length, and Iimprint uponone face thereof and throughout its length in duplication and successionthe ticket A, each ticket having the words, signs, or symbols employedin a tailors ticket for marking completed gar ments. Each ticket hasupon its edges the indentations or small openings a, and these arepreferably formed only along the edges at the corners of the ticket. Theobject of these indentations or openings is to furnishstitchholesthrough which the needle may be easily passed in fasteningthe ticket to the completed garment, and I find it desirable that theyshould be in the form ofindentations only, and they may be of such adepth that the material of theticketis almostbut not wholly destroyed orpunctured where they occur, so that comparatively no resistance isoffered to the neodle in its passage through the ticket in sewing thesame to the garment, while the ticket itself is not defaced before it isthus sewed upon the garment.

The ticket may be formed with the beveled corners seen in Fig. 2, sothat an edge, a,

along which the indentations are made shall (No model.)

The tickets thus formed and imprinted onthe strip or ribbon arepreferably wound into a coil, as shown at B, and in winding them it ispreferable that the faces of the tickets should be turned toward thecenter ot'the coil,

as shown.

It is evident that the workman will be facilitated in attaching theticket thus constituted to the garment by being enabled to readily formthe fastening-stitches in the indentations on the edges of the ticket,and will also be less liable to deface the ticket in sewing it to thegarment than he would if he had to exert the force upon the needlenecessary to drive it through the material of the ticket as well asthrough that ofthe garment, the tickets being generally made of stiffantLs newhat heavy card-board.

Tailors garment-marking tickets constructed as described constitute anarticle of manufacture which is new and of great utility to tailors andtheir workmen.

Instead of beveling off the corners of the ticket to constitute an edgefor the fasteningstitches, as shown in Fig. 2, the corners of the ticketmay berounded and the indentations for the fastening-stitches may bemade along said rounded edge.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- As an improved article of manufacture, the ticket A, having theindentations or openings a along its edges, as and for the purposespecilied.

JOHN KELLER.

Vitnesses:

A. S. FITcH, GEORGE W. BEEBEE.

